Yet another TOD post that has been reblogged by Jueseppi B, despite requests that he make his own effort to support PBO rather than copying others simply to drive up his reblog’s traffic. He doesn’t take kindly to being challenged, as another woman found out: explicit. Genuine bloggers are welcome to use anything they ever see at TOD. Thanks

Isn’t it strange that the guy some are saying wasn’t born in this country has been the only one fighting to get this country back on the right track. The one who has put country ahead of party. Unlike the hypocrites who are always talking about how much they love this country, but these hypocrites were only to willing to see this country go down, just to defeat this President.

“Nobody’s ever asked to see my birth certificate. But as someone of Chinese descent I have been asked plenty of times where I’m from — and when I say “Poughkeepsie,” I often get the follow-up question that’s almost a cliché now among Asian Americans: “No, where are you really from?”

It’s always disheartening to get that question, even though I’ve learned to answer it with equanimity and usually take care to make the inquisitor feel not-stupid. But it’s always clarifying, for it reveals the default picture in the minds of some of my fellow Americans about who they are, who we are, and who I am.

That’s why Mitt Romney’s birther-baiting remarks today are, in a way, welcome. Let there be no doubt: He is the candidate for people who think the name Obama must be Muslim and its bearer indelibly foreign. He is also the candidate for the greater number of people who do not initially imagine that someone with my face, my eyes, my skin could be from this country.”

This is a beautiful statement, Rita, thanks. It speaks so clearly to the underlying faultline in American society–a diverse society that fears, rather than celebrates its diversity. Down one path lies our our decline. The other leads us to a greater than every America. Romney wants to take us a long way down the dark path. I don’t think I can ever remember a more despicable candidate for president–he even outdoes Nixon.

ok – quiet day in the office – and I’m YELLING – CNN flashes on my phone (because I can’t kill their fucking push notifications) “PBO & Romney in statistical tie new poll shows” – I screamed, “FUCK OFF I DON’T BELIEVE THAT FOR A SECOND. YOU CAN’T GET THE ARMSTRONG STORY RIGHT, WHY SHOULD I BELIEVE ANYTHING YOU PRINT?”

I need a drink. Anyone around Studio City want to join me in an early happy hour?

Ha ! Jefferson Obama called that one early on the other thread., He said they would release a poll at 4 PM saying the race is a tie….so I e-mailed them his tweets and asked how they like the American public seeing right through their bullshit.

ck, i think i saw one time that you’re on the younger side of the scale around here…i first started noticing this many elections ago, where no matter how horribly the republican candidate was doing campaigning or while in office, with incessant blunders, there would magically be a poll(s) showing them gaining! i think you’re just noticing the same playbook they’ve been running ever since the same billionaire class started buying up all the media, of which the polling companies are part now. in fact, the fake polls are done specifically to try to turn the momentum to the republican and cover up their failures.

and it’s not about keeping it a “horserace” either, as many suggest. if that were true, do anyone honestly think that if a republican candidate had a huge lead in polls, we’d be seeing slanted polling and false coverage to boost the democrat? i certainly don’t think so. same as it ever was…

as exactly predicted after the utter disaster of rmoney’s european vacation, “the news” has been slowly building a narrative that rmoney is on the rise, with polls as their main propaganda weapon. what on earth that has happened since mittbot’s horrific trip could possibly suggest he’s gaining traction?!?! just the opposite as he goes from one failure to next, along with ayn rand running mate, and president obama just keeps nailing it. until we fix the billionaire control of the nationa discourse through the media, we’ll always have to struggle to win elections, no what the facts are…

“The Constitution does not define the phrase natural-born citizen, and various opinions have been offered over time regarding its precise meaning. A 2011 Congressional Research Service report stated

The weight of legal and historical authority indicates that the term “natural born” citizen would mean a person who is entitled to U.S. citizenship “by birth” or “at birth”, either by being born “in” the United States and under its jurisdiction, even those born to alien parents; by being born abroad to U.S. citizen-parents; or by being born in other situations meeting legal requirements for U.S. citizenship “at birth”. Such term, however, would not include a person who was not a U.S. citizen by birth or at birth, and who was thus born an “alien” required to go through the legal process of “naturalization” to become a U.S. citizen.[1]

*The Constitution does not define the phrase “natural-born citizen”*

AAAAARRRRGHHHH – lawyers and social scientists: A defining document without definition of its constituent axioms !

Do Democrats book who appears on these shows? I hope you are not blaming Democrats for “being on the sideline.” If you are, your blame is very unfair. It seems to me that 100% of the blame belongs to the Republican propaganda media masquerading as objective U.S. media.

Totally agree nathkatun7. These shows lineups usually favor GOP, but I guess with the GOP convention coming up they went overboard with GOP bookings. There is NOTHING democrats can do to force these shows to book them. We have to stop reflexively blaming our side for the sins of our corporate owned, pro-GOP MSM.

Mitt Romney is desperate for the election conversation to be changed. What’s happening right now isn’t working for him. Paul Ryan’s selection got him stuck in explaining his way out of killing Medicare. Then the Todd Akin situation highlighted just how extreme the party Romney leads has become — while also showing how impotent Romney is as the titular head of the entire enterprise.

So now Romney takes a page from his surrogate and fundraiser Donald Trump and goes birther:

In response to Romney’s trip down the birther trail, Obama campaign spokesman Ben LeBolt said, “Throughout this campaign, Governor Romney has embraced the most strident voices in his party instead of standing up to them. It’s one thing to give the stage in Tampa to Donald Trump, Sheriff Arpaio, and Kris Kobach. But Governor Romney’s decision to directly enlist himself in the birther movement should give pause to any rational voter across America.”

Romney is correct. No one has ever asked for his birth certificate, but the American people are demanding to see the tax returns that he continues to refuse to release.

Paul Ryan still opposes abortion with no exceptions for rape, incest, or the health or life of the mother. Mitt Romney isn’t willing to go that far, but he has supported a personhood amendment to the Constitution that would effectively make Ryan’s position the inalterable law of the land. Here’s what you need to know about abortion rights. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, John Roberts, and Antonin Scalia think Roe v. Wade and Casey v. Planned Parenthood were wrongly decided and would overturn those cases.

Was out all day so just got back in and heard the news from mitt the piece of garbage.
All I could do to bring my blood pressure down was to donate and also purchase one of the
made in the USA mugs…which i have always wanted. Thanks for the link to that Chips. It made it
so much easier for me to let off steam. Also had to send that moron a tweet. We have to get rid
of this fool.

.@mittromney;.NO,we don't want to see your Birth Certificate. We want to see your TAX RETURNS. Are they in the SEWER with you?

it usually was a usatoday poll that would magically show a republican gaining momentum that all the media would tout as the most important poll ever all of a sudden, even though all logic shows that the republican would be falling after a bunch of missteps. it seems cnn is taking the baton now for a while, since they’ve put out some like this recently within a few days of major mittbot fail.

Knoller the Horrible is tweeting himself silly in a rescue mission of Willard, the Big Jokester. Keeps quoting Scott Pelley’s rescue interview of Willard. See, Willard was just trying to have a little fun, he said, using his well-known sense of humor. Racist birtherism!—-hahahaha! So Funny! I’m more American than that other darker pigmented guy! Hahahahaha! Hilarious!
Calling all Snarks!!!

We’re going to see a lot of this Mitt Biography 2.0 next week, as the campaign tries to rebuild the candidate as someone who does not appear to have been born on another planet. We’ll get the full-on treatment about the Winter Olympics, now that he’s safely a few weeks past the fiasco in London. We’ll get a carefully bowdlerized account of his governorship of Massachusetts, with budget-balancing and tough-decision-making emphasized and everything else vaporized. We’ll supposedly get a glimpse of his religious life—presumably the parts of it that stay a million miles away from LDS theology or history. And we’ll get lots and lots of family, as evidenced by the very high-profile role his wife will play in Tampa.

This all makes sense; just because Romney’s biographically-based rationale for candidacy basically fell apart over the summer is no reason he shouldn’t use millions of dollars in earned media to build it back up again in an environment where no one is arguing with him.

We ponder what Mitt was thinking by bringing up the birther issue. Have you heard anything today about Akin, taxes, rape, shut it down, you people, PAynRand? No? I wonder why. Don’t be fooled, this was orchestrated cause nothing grabs the MSM and tin foil wearers more than birther talk. It’s just another negative campaign tactic. Sure, it got PBO some good donations that he may not have gotten today. Mitt calculated that into the risk and found it to be well worth getting everyone off of raging rape and magical ovaries. This takes the teabutts into their convention fired up for what Mitt did instead of depressed about what Akin did.

I’d appreciate it if someone could tweet this to the Obama campaign in response to Romney going Birther,no more Bruce Springsteen response anymore.The gloves should be off for good from now until November.The dog whistling will only intensify

The President’s response should be : NO One Has Asked Me To Release My Tax Returns :!:

Many thanks to those who contributed to my fundraising page. Thanks Chips for putting it up front and center. We got this, it’s just going to take some nerves of steel. This will not be for the feint of heart. We must just set our sites FORWARD to Nov 6th and the TOD meet-up for the inauguration.

Truly I don’t think birthed comments help Mitt Romney with anyone but the racists who are already voting for him. It alienates the few authentic Indies around. The second piece of good news is that Todd Akin just gave the finger to the GOP leaders. Third, the CNN poll shows PBO improving dramatically over the last CNN poll and moving above 50% with a hefty 9% lead. That “likely voter” screen is totally bogus and done to please GOP voters who may want to watch the convention on CNN next week. ( doubly bogus because those voters are watching Fox first and Foxlite second.)

With Registered Voters, TeaNN, CNN, Fox lite has pres Obama at 52% and Birther Lying Bishop Romney at 43% Then they disqualified their Registered voters’ poll numbers and all of a sudden, Unlike how they did last Month. They added Likely voters from the same registered voters they polled. Thereby skewing the samples.

Pres Obama was at 49% and Romney is within the MOE at 47%. Likely voters mean more in Late October. Last month registered Voters per CNN, pres Obama was 6-7% ahead. Gained 2-3% points in August. But per the Mathematics of TeaNN, Romney is tied with pres Obama.

Then why is the Lying bishop going full birtherism on 8-24-12? Internal polls of Romney, that is my guess.

That “Republican Women for Obama” video needs to be an advertisement on television. The Republican party has gone so far to the Right that my Cuban American co-worker won’t be voting for them for the first time since she’s reached voting age. They are turning off loads of people. Hopefully enough to keep Obama in the White House!

As voter suppression laws spread across the country, voting rights advocates can take heart: the biggest state in the nation is on the cusp of passing a major voter protection initiative.

Election Day Registration (EDR), which allows citizens to register up to and on Election Day, passed the California State Senate today by a party-line vote of 23-13. AB 1436 had passed the State Assembly in May 47-26.

Under current law, Californians cannot register to vote in the final two weeks before an election, just as many Americans are beginning to tune in. EDR will eliminate that deadline, ensuring that no citizen is disenfranchised because he or she wasn’t registered beforehand.

This won’t just benefit slackers. Historically-disenfranchised citizens like minorities and poorer Americans, will particularly benefit from EDR. On average, studies have found that EDR boosts voter turnout by seven percentage points. Common Cause’s Phillip Ung told ThinkProgress he “expects voter turnout to increase by the hundreds of thousands” solely as a result of EDR.

Eight states currently allow their citizens to register on Election Day: Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. California is poised to become the latest, and by far the largest, state to enact EDR.
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This morning the Democratic National Convention Committee announced that five-time Grammy Award winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer James Taylor will headline festivities that will precede President Obama’s nomination acceptance speech at Bank of America Stadium on Thursday, September 6. This “tribute to the dynamic convention host state” will also include Charlotte’s hip-hop choir/dance group and stars of America’s Got Talent, Inspire the Fire, and genre-bending rock band Delta Rae from Durham. North Carolina’s homegrown talent will energize tens of thousands of Americans at this once in a lifetime event, that is open to the public.